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Ship timbers. Slave trade. Poor quality of Louisiana tobacco. Reports on the gum tree. Estimation of what the colony will require in 1743. Financial problems; financial accounts. Arrival of the Charente; 24 men convicted of contraband aboard. Plans for the establishment of a Jesuit college and of a school run by the "Freres des Ecoles chretiennes". Relations with the Cherokee, the Wabash and the Illinois nations. The Choctaws attack the Chickasaws; "Soulier Rouge" again in the good graces of the French. The Chickasaws may withdraw to Carolina. British intrigues. Depreciation of card money. Bienville requests his recall to France. Military affairs; officers on duty at New Orleans. Information on Admiral Vernon's fleet; seizure of the Andromede, later released. 6 canons ceded to Spanish authorities at Vera Cruz. Vernon's unsuccessful attack on the Kingdom of Santa Fe. Relations with the various Indian tribes. News from the Saint Augustine fort. Tropical woods exported to France. Salmon, "commissaire ordonnateur", to return to France; financial reports. The Swiss troops. Slaves. Fortifications required at Mobile. Agitation among Choctaws and Chickasaws. Reports from missionaries. Cherokee and English intrigues. Relations with Alabamas. Settlement of Compagnie des Indes accounts after the retrocession of Louisiana to the King.

5 English prisoners held at New Orleans. Indian barter merchandise; superiority of English products. Administrative and legal questions affecting Louisiana inhabitants. Religious and church affairs; missions. Depreciation of card money. M. de Vaudreuil: governor. Disastrous effect of alcohol on Indians. Cargoes of the Charente and the Vestale. Bienville reports on the state of the colony; emphasis placed on Indian policy; arrival of Vaudreuil; his first reports: incoherent Indian policy; French Indian merchandise more costly than and inferior to British products. Finances. The Spanish again close their doors to Louisiana produce. Officers named to duty in the various posts and in New Orleans. Trade in Illinois country; changes to be made. Trade in Missouri Valley. Arrival of slaves. Negotiations with major tribes: Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Alabamas, Abenakis. Oglethorpe said to lead an offensive against Florida. Tropical woods sent to Rochefort. Salmon reports on financial and budgetary problems. Work at La Balise; navigation on the Mississippi. Mobile exposed to English attacks; troops needed. The gum tree. Concessions granted in Missouri territory. The fur trade in Canada and Louisiana. A post may be Kansas country. The sale of alcohol to Indians is forbidden. Arrival of Elephant. Rumors of war with England. News from the Wabash and the upper Mississippi Valley. Exploitation of mines in Illinois country. Saint Denis dies at Natchitoches. Some trade resumed with Spanish colonies. Le Normant, new "commissaire ordonnateur" reports on his trip and the situation in Louisiana; financial and administrative disorder.

Policy, concerning concessions of public lands. Civil law: rights of minors, inheritance laws. Maritime prize law. Fabry's expedition to Santa Fe. Ship timber; tropical woods. Repairs required in various posts. Slaves. Finances of the colony. Housing for the Ursuline sisters. Officer personnel. Paper money suppressed. Iron deposits discovered near Mobile. The Elephant and Chameau arrive with urgently needed supplies. English intrigues among Indian allies of the French. Relations with the Spanish not very profitable. Beauharnais, governor of Canada, critical of Vaudreuil's decisions relative to the Illinois. Le Normant's severe financial reforms will provoke trouble in the posts and desertion of Indian allies. Officer personnel victims of privations; their salaries must be paid. Le Normant opposes the construction of a fort in Wabash country. The Elephant captured by the English. Rules to govern traders and trappers and relations between Canada and Louisiana. Colonial trade with France. Le Normant continues his inspection of the accounts of public institutions. Changes made in the command at Mobile. Le Normant requests to be recalled. Detailed reports on Mobile and the Indian tribes of that region. Efficacity of English propaganda. Outbreak of tribal warfare. French and Swiss troops.

Navigation on the Mississippi. Fortifications; ammunition required. Peace negotiations between the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes. French prices on barter merchandise too high. Le Normant's policy of economy will lead to disaster. Events in the Wabash and Ohio regions. La Triomphante and a merchant vessel from La Rochelle arrive at La Balise. Danger created at Mobile by lack of merchandise. Trade with the Illinois. The Chameau takes on cargo and passengers. The Cherokees seek peace; turn against the English. Soulier Rouge and his fluctuations. Local uprising of a few Choctaws against the French. Arrival of La Mutine. Work at La Balise. Desertion of soldiers at posts deprived of supplies and barter merchandise. The Spanish continue to sell alcohol to Indians. Excellent harvest in Illinois country. The indigo harvest also good. English offensive against Louisiana and Florida rumored. Spanish officials so informed. Oglethorpe is the man to watch. Le Normant's financial and administrative reports. The privateer Aimable arrives with a Jamaican prise. The British capture Louisiana supply ships; le Lion d'Or, l'Elephant. Trouble with the Choctaws, with the Chickasaws, the English ready to take the place of the French who are handicapped by lack of barter merchandise. Memoir on Louisiana's importance to France.

Maritime prize law. The French encourage war and the British try to bring peace between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. A British trading post founded on the Wabash near the Illinois. The British continue to menace French positions but war has yet broken out. Construction of a fort on the Missouri, by Desruisseau. Relations between Canada and Louisiana. Discipline of troops stationed in Louisiana; desertions. La Mutine returns to France. The colony must be ready to defend itself. Reports on the posts; situation of the officers; lack of barter merchandise. The Wabash country; English posts there and among the Cherokees. Mineral deposits in the Mobile area. Relations with Spanish colonies. Le Chameau to call at Havana to embark the former Vice Roy of Mexico. The Swiss regiment. Tobacco growing. Internal strife among Choctaws; hope of having Soulier Rouge assassinated. The La Balise pass closed by sediment. Longueil, commanding the fort at Detroit, informs Louisiana authorities of unrest in his territory. Le Normant's financial and administrative reports; supplies; prices; barter; cost of hospitals, other details. Le Normant authorized to return to France; recommendations in favor of people having impressed him favorably. Beauchamps, major at Mobile, relates the revolt of Soulier Rouge. Augias reports on the state of the colony: agriculture, slaves; relations with Indians, fortifications. Various accounting documents.

Ships arrive from France; supplies received. Concessions of public lands; titles of nobility. The post at La Balise must be maintained. M. d'Auberville is the new "ordonnateur". Doctors. An English parliamentary ship arrives at La Balise, coming from Jamaica. An armistice has been signed by France. Great Britain and Holland. Trade in Illinois country; relations with Indians in that area; trouble at Detroit; the English attempt to provoke a general uprising of Indian tribes. Relations with Spanish colonies. Negroes needed. The Elephant and Chameau seized by the English. The winter was unusually severe. Louisiana exports. The Swiss troops. Deserters. The Illinois are victims of enemy inroads in Wabash territory. Coal and other mineral deposits. The Choctaws become aggressive; unrest among Canadian tribes. French ships arrive with prizes at the Ile aux Vaisseaux. Exchange of prisoners with Anthony Palmer, governor of Philadelphia. News from the trading posts, from the missionaries; English intrigues among the Cherokees. Aggressive attitude of Carolina's governor. The Choctaws raid the German settlement. Le Normant's financial reports. Louisiana produce exported to France. Le Normant's departure. Auberville replaces him until the expected arrival of M. Michel. Accounts. Estimates for the following year. Trade with the Spanish, with the Indians. Civil war among the Choctaws; Frenchmen assassinated at Mobile; a coalition against the French probable; Indian chiefs murdered by their own people; Soulier Rouge reported to be dead.

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Ships arrive with troops and supplies; fortifications, defense of the Cote des Allemands against Choctaw raids. Honors and appointments for various New Orleans dignitaries. Budget and treasury of the colony. The forts and posts require reparations. Slaves needed. M. Michel, the new "ordonnateur" arrives; his first letters and reports. Peace proclaimed. Rivalry between the governor and the "ordonnateur" especially in regard to Indian policy. Aid given to Pensacola. Court martial trial in relation to the Choctaw raid on the "Quartier des Allemands". The 1750 tobacco crop is good. English influence subsiding among the still restless Choctaws. Importance of Mobile. The Arkansas post attacked by Abenakis and Chickasaws. Arrival of the Illinois convoy. Circulation of money (paper, card, species) in Louisiana. Presents for Indians. Exports: wood, indigo, tobacco. Slaves required. Hurricane damage at New Orleans, La Balise, Bayou Saint Jean. The Swiss troops. An English post near the Illinois should be eliminated if future trouble is to be avoided. Communications to be established between the Arkansas post and Santa Fe. Concessions of public lands. The Vierge de Grace deports from France. Public works, street and road maintenance. Finally, 24 companies of 50 men and 200 recruits arrive in colony. An "herbier" sent to M. de Buffon for the King's botanical garden. Memoir proposing the creation of a trading company holding the monopoly of the importation of Negro slaves and the exportation of tobacco. Discovery of a deposit of rock crystal.

The Ursuline convent. Officers arrive in the colony. Expenses of the Illinois convoy. Map of Mississippi. Reinforcements for Mobile. Other posts to be repaired and reinforced. The Swiss troops. Administrative measures regulating cabarets, slaves, markets, etc. More troops arrive aboard the Aimable Jeanne, the Pontchartrain. The Choctaws create trouble near the Natchez fort. English expansion must be stopped. Search for a new route to Santa Fe. Importance of Mobile and of the tribes in that region. Six companies garrisoned at Kaskaskia, strategically situated in reference to Canadian trappers, to Detroit, to the Wabash country. Arrival of supply ships. War threatens in Ohio country; the Wabash, Osage, Missouri and Illinois tribes seek a coalition designed to expulse the French; possible repercussions among the Arkansas. Michel reports on the colony, especially on financial and administrative matters. Accounting documents. Barracks for the Swiss. Quarrels among officers; the same young mulatto woman coveted by several of them. Michel, "ordonnateur", highly critical of Governor and Madame de Vaudreuil. The Arkansas post abandoned; the commander of the Missouri post assassinated by a soldier. Ships and men continue to arrive, but not enough food. Soldiers having deserted to the Indian returned by the latter with plea of clemency in their favor. Navigation on the Mississippi.

The Rochefort runs aground at La Balise. Changes in the "Conseil superior de la Louisiana", death of the "procureur general" Fleuriau. Death of M. Michel. Settlers needed. Personnel for Mobile. News of the Cote des Allemands. Vaudreuil considers he has reconciled the two warring factions of the Choctaw tribe; urgent need for large quantities of Indian barter merchandise. Questions of personnel, officer and enlisted. Swiss troops. Wabash and Illinois uprising; timely return of convoy. Trouble with the Cherokees; the Ohio country in a state of unrest. Celebration of the birth of the Duc de Bourgogne. Necessity of regaining the friendship of the Illinois. Arrival of the supply ship Le Rhinoceros. Doctors and botanists. The Choctaws raid Chickasaw villages. Auberville replaces Michel. The Illinois again calm. M. de Kerlerec appointed governor; his voyage to Louisiana; his instructions. Michel's final reports: financial affairs, production, trade, imports. Trade with the Illinois, the Spanish. Food. Slaves. Law and order. Guns and ammunition demanded by the Choctaws. Missions and Missionaries. Correspondence of Auberville, after Michel's death. Detailed report by MacCarty on the Wabash-Illinois uprising. Excellent harvest; supplies sent to Canada; abundance of furs in the Missouri region; relations with Canada. Navigation on the Mississippi. Cotton, wax. Introduction of sugar cane by M. de Villars du Breuil; his remarks on Louisiana's trade potential.